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Send us a textWhat do all of these have in common? Join us for a fun and engaging conversation about the intricacies of leadership learning and education. Wax on, wax off.Dr. Bob Reimer is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the United States Air Force Academy where he helps students, faculty, and staff discover performance possibilities that they are missing. Bob holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Penn State with a focus on enhancing workplace performance to include leadership and talent management. Bob is certified to administer and interpret assessments to help individuals and organizations succeed. Bob has applied experience advancing the performance of global companies, government organizations, professional associations, and educational institutions. Select Articles by Dr. ReimerLeadership Development: Observations on Practicum as a Team-Based ApproachThe Impact of Using a Survey Framework in Leadership Education: Is More BetterSituational Obstacles to Enacting Transformational Leadership in Military OrganizationsGetting What you Inspect, Not What You Expect: Leveraging Technology to Enhance Leadership Assessment MethodologiesQuotes From This Episode"I think one of the great challenges that I see today...we've seen a great proliferation of leadership, ideas, plans, programs, products, you name it...but as a discipline...we don't really have objective standards." "I think one (challenge) is we're wrestling with this idea of what 'evidence-based' looks like.""Our identities always exist in a system.""When a student comes to understand leadership, as a solution to the problem of bringing people together to do things collectively, then that changes their perspective on what leadership is...I don't have to be the team leader, to have a role in influencing how my teammates come together, and we work interdependently to get work done.""My students remind me on a daily basis that they don't necessarily want to study leadership as a topic. But every single one of them is actively engaged on a daily basis with practicing leadership. My job as an educator and as a director, when I work with faculty who are teaching these courses, is creating environments where we can really tie together the knowledge with the skills and the abilities that really matter to the student."Resources Mentioned in This Episode♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a text"If we are going to achieve freedom we’ve got to engage in action programs to make that freedom possible. Let nobody fool you about this. Freedom is never voluntarily given to the oppressed by the oppressor." - Martin Luther King, Jr.Jim Robenalt is an author, historian, and attorney. He's a partner in Thompson Hine's Business Litigation practice group and has been named as one of America's Leading Lawyers in the Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers. Jim has consistently been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® and has been selected for inclusion in Ohio Super Lawyers® through a process that includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Jim has partnered with John Dean, Nixon's White House Counsel, to create a national continuing education program entitled "The Watergate CLE."Select Publications by Jim RobenaltWebsite/Podcast: Ballots and BulletsBook: Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 ClevelandBook: January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month That Changed America Forever  - with John DeanThe Harding Affair: Love and Espionage during the Great War - with John DeanArticle:  What Joe Biden and Franklin Roosevelt Have in CommonArticle: How HUD Nominee Marcia Fudge Can Undo the Damage Nixon Did CLE Program: The Legacy of Watergate: Ethics of Representing an Entity Under the Current Model Rules Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeSpeech: Malcolm X: Ballot or BulletSpeech: Martin Luther King, Jr.: April 26, 1967 in Cleveland, OhioSpeech: Robert Kennedy: April 4, 1968Film: One Night in Miami Harvard Business Review Case: ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textWhat's hot in the world of teams? Remote work. Virtual leadership. Teaming from a distance. David Burkus' new book Leading From Anywhere explores critical insights about doing this work well. About DavidDavid Burkus is the best-selling author of five books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNN, BBC, NPR, and CBS This Morning. Since 2017, Burkus has ranked as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50. As a sought-after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed more than two million times. He’s worked with leaders from organizations across all industries including Google, Stryker, Fidelity, Viacom, and the US Naval Academy. His most recent book is Leading From Anywhere.David's Publications and WebsiteLeading From AnywhereThe Myths of CreativityUnder New ManagementFriend of a FriendPick a FightDavid's WebsiteQuotes from This Episode"I’m trying to drag good ideas out of the ivory tower and drag them over to the corner office.""There is one thing that everybody listening to this should do. And that is an exercise I call a Team Working Agreement, which is basically our rules for how we're going to conduct business over the next six months""People don’t want to join a company, they want to join a crusade. They want to join a cause. They want to join something that makes them feel ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textHow can you work to be a better leader every day of 2021? My guest gives us 365 steps to get you there.About Dr. RiggioRonald E. Riggio, Ph.D., is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and former director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. Professor Riggio is the author of more than a dozen books and more than 100 research articles and book chapters in the areas of leadership, assessment centers, organizational psychology, and social psychology. He's served on the editorial boards of The Leadership Quarterly, Leadership, Group Dynamics, and Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.Explore Ron's WorkRon's Latest Book - Daily Leadership Development: 365 Steps to Becoming a Better Leader Ron's Website and his blog at Psychology TodayQuotes From This Episode"You know, this is a journey, not a destination.""This book (Daily Leadership Development: 365 Steps to Becoming a Better Leader) could be something that you could go back to throughout your leadership career because the final few weeks are really about thinking about the end of  your leadership in terms of, 'what's your leadership legacy?'" Question: What does President-Elect Biden need to do to move past some of the challenges that are inherently baked into the role he's about to assume? - "I've done a lot of thinking about this. I think the number one issue is divisiveness."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeBook - The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker  Book - The Bass Handbook of Leadership: Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications by Bernard M. Bass  and  Ruth Bass Book - Inclusify by Stefanie Johnson Frontline Documentary - A Class Divided - Jane Elliott’s lesson in discriminationBook - ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textKen Accardi is the CEO of Ankota. He's a technology executive with a broad experience base. Ken has served as CEO, CTO, CIO, VP of Business Solutions, Director of R&D, and VP of Process/Quality. He teaches at Babson College and has several specialties, including healthcare (specifically avoiding preventable hospitalizations for elderly at-risk populations), new product introduction, software engineering management, value innovation, product management, lean Six Sigma, quality management, strategic planning and execution, software pre-sales, professional services, technology training, and acquisition integration. Quotes from This Episode"Because when you do try to plan, let's say, six months of work all on day one, it's really impossible to know all the things that you need. And you've likely thought of things that you could live without. And so having this agile methodology lets you solve all those problems."(regarding Agile) - "There are a lot of points for celebration. Every two weeks, you have something new out and something to be proud of as a team."(regarding Agile) - "There are people who are going to write code, there are people who are going to make sure that the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) or to the customer's expectation, there are people who are going to test the code, and you want them all working together, sort of like a jazz group - they all seem to be jiving together. And everybody's contributing and doing their part. And in the end, you get something really beautiful out of it.""My definition of culture is what people do when nobody's telling them what to do." Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeWebsite - Agile ManifestoVideo - Spotify Engineering Culture - Part 1 & Part 2  Organizaton - Buurtzorg  and its founder, Jos de BlokBlog Post - USS University by Scott Galloway Podcast - Freakonomics Radio Podcast - The Moth Radio Hour Book - Robot-Proof by Joseph Auon Article - China: Starting in 2019 AI Will be Including in High-School CurriculaBook - Lea♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textTed Baartmans consults leaders, government officials, and international boards in their presence and communication. He studied geography and cultural anthropology at the University of Utrecht and public administration and government communication at the University of Leiden. He also studied crisis communication at Northwestern University. Ted’s clients are found around the world: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe as well as North and South America. They include leaders, general staff, and boards for companies, government, and NGOs. He also works with several associations and societies in fields such as education, research, environment, government, healthcare, politics, and logistics. About Ted BaartmansThe Leadership GroupLinkedInQuotes From This Episode"If I take these three steps: understanding, acceptance, and respect, then it's easy to connect to any leader in any position.""It’s all about being valued and respected.""The only issue in my work is building trust... how to build trust, and to make it sustainable.""My approach to culture is also looking for commonalities...with this belief, you always will find commonalities instead of differences. And then you have an entrance to drink a cup of tea in a tent and to start a negotiation.""I learned over all these years, everything is always connected to something else or has angles that were not seen before.""People like to be appreciated. All people."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeBook: Leadership by James MacGregor BurnsBook: Reunited States of America by Mark GerzonBook: Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life by Robert C. Solomon and Fernando FloresBook: The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All by Martin Sandbu Article: Van Quaquebeke, N., Henrich, D. C., & Eckloff, T. (2007). “♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Stratton is the Dean of the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College & State University and also serves as the president of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS). He's an accomplished academic leader and teacher-scholar with experience in private and public higher education. Micheal's expertise lies in the theoretical and practical application of organizational leadership, including workplace culture, power and politics, group dynamics, shared governance, and stakeholder relations. About MichealLinkedInGeorgia College and State UniversityManagement and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS)Quotes from This Episode"Being a first-generation college student and growing up in a working-class family in the mountains of Maine...going to college itself was a stretch.""Management and study of the organization is a liberal art...you know the complexity of human existence and organizations are social phenomena.""At Georgia College, I think the opportunities are endless. Not just collaborating within the university, but collaborating within the system...potential like three plus three programs - a Bachelors of Science in Business and a JD program at another university?""Higher education cannot survive in its silo...as a unit, as an institution, or in its ecosystem. Ecosystems are going to have to come together and merge. I'm not afraid of it. There's no discipline that I know of that has a monopoly on the complexities of human existence."Regarding MOBTS - "As a 47-48-year-old organization, we need to recruit the next generation of management educators, and we need to retain them, and show them how important our organization is."Resources Mentioned in EpisodeVanilla Ice - Ice Ice BabyThe CrownThe QueenThe Queen's GambitThe MandalorianThe Best of Car Talk Podcast♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Eliane Ubalijoro is the Deputy Executive Director (Programmes) of GODAN Secretariat and a Professor of Practice for Public-Private Sector Partnerships at McGill University. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Capitals Coalition, a member of the board of advisors for ShEquity, and an executive board member of Crop Trust. Dr. Ubalijoro is a member of Rwanda's National Science and Technology Council and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. We met while serving on the board of the International Leadership Association.Eliane UbalijoroTED Talk - Reimaging the world From scarcity to prosperityNext Einstein Forum Forbes Article - 5 Lessons for a Non-Linear Scientific CareerTwitter: @elianeubalijoro LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliane-ubalijoro-1b8a7b/ Quotes From This Episode"So that’s when the meeting of all our senses and science come together. And we realize that this isn’t about politics, this is about humanity and survival.""This is where I think science meeting indigenous wisdom is really important. Indigenous wisdom really was, has always been, based on storytelling...our capacity to tell stories that speak to our minds, our hearts, and our souls.""Coming from a country in Africa, which is one of the smallest, and most fragile post-conflict countries in the world... we have to imagine everything. So what we're looking for aren't managers, we're looking for leaders that have the capacity to dream and to execute their dreams into reality. And so that is all about leadership and transformation."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeNobel Laureate - Wangari Maathai Film - Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai Documentary - David Attenborough: A Life on Our PlanetDocumentary - I am GretaBook - All We Can Save by Katharine K. Wilkinson and Ayana Elizabeth JohnsonBook - ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textAldo Boitano is an entrepreneur, author, Ph.D. candidate (Pepperdine), engineer, world-class mountaineer, and executive developer. He is also a husband and father. He serves as Chief Technology Officer & Partner at Egreen.com, Director at Chilean Lithium Salars, and the Executive Director at Executive Development. He's led expeditions to the South Pole for Wharton and UNC-Charlotte and was the  Dean of Instituto Vertical. He has served on numerous boards including the International Leadership Association and Electra.Publications by Aldo BoitanoThe Entire Planet Must Reformulate Its Way of OperatingPeace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century: The Role of Leaders and Followers (Editor)Breaking the Zero-Sum Game: Transforming Societies Through Inclusive Leadership (Editor)Aldo's Expeditions on K2Film - Surviving the Summit (National Geographic Television)Film - EL CAMINO ES LA META: CAPÍTULO 4 - K2 1996Film - K2 El Máximo desafio The ultimate challenge Book - K2 el máximo desafío. The Ultimate ChallengeQuotes From This Episode"We were aligned with the objective of being the first-ever Latin American team to climb K2 via the 'high route' and survive.""There’s a big difference between teams that have a soul, have a purpose, who are more generous and collaborative versus teams who are selfish and misaligned."On his dissertation work - "It's not that much different from mountaineering. You empower people, you have devil’s advocate, you have small teams...you fight hard on the problems and you are soft on the people."Resources Mentioned In This Episode21 Lessons for the 21st Century  by Yuval-HarariEpisodes Mentioned in This PodcastSara SafariSharna Fabiano♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Dr. Martin Gutmann discusses Roald Amundsen's exceptional polar exploration achievements and leadership, contrasting them with British expeditions. He delves into exploring historical leadership cases in business education and shares personal reading recommendations, highlighting the importance of accurate leader evaluation.